Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:08:49 -0700 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: sysinstall MEDIA_TIMEOUT pretty high Message-ID: <35c231bf0510041708t6de140dfgb73c09f6f87f526f@mail.gmail.com>
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MEDIA_TIMEOUT is used to determine how long it will wait between retrying a DNS lookup. Would there be any objection to modifying the defaults sysinstall to lower its default MEDIA_TIMEOUT from 300 seconds to something more like 10, and then increasing the retry count from 2 to 30? The net result should be that it would wait just as long (5 minutes) before accepting a total failure, but it should retry often enough that two transient failures (for whatever reason they may occur) won't cause the installation to fail entirely, and it could help make sysinstall just slightly more user-friendly. (This is particularly an issue because if it cannot look up the hostname, sysinstall will allow you to try to restart the process, but it will then try to install the OS on the ramdisk, or do other broken things: bin/42162 from 2002)
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